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Good afternoon, I followed the instructions to install the latest version of the Budgie desktop. I followed the instructions on the website: https://docs.buddiesofbudgie.org/developer/workflow/building-budgie-desktop/ and I installed all the requirements for this latest version, but in the end...

Hello FreeBSD community, Since I updated my FreeBSD last week (and today), Telegram Desktop cannot be started anymore. Before it was simply possible by executing telegram-desktop through CLI or calling it through the shortcut, which of course also doesn't work anymore. The issues started with...

thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2025/05/14! This one includes a great introduction to Mark Philipps, the Foundation's new technical marketing manager! There's some great progress, particularly from the Foundation's Laptop...

For example, if I try pressing Fn+F11 to raise my volume, it just doesn't work. I've tried using cat to see if it returns any escape code (?) for any of those fn+F... keys, and it didn't display anything for some reason. It's as if I hadn't pressed any key at all in the first place. What's going...

I am Currently running FreeBSD 14.2 I am unable to get Nvidia GT215 working with Nvidia-driver-340. I am running Lumina-desktop which also crashes at times. inxi Device: Nvidia GT215. driver: vgapci Display server: X.org 1.21.1.14 driver: loaded: nv resolution 1920x1200...

Good moorning, I need help for install COSMIC desktop on FreeBSD I need the instructions, please Thanks

Hello All BSD'ers One day, GhostBSDCon will be the premier online conference for Desktop users and developers on BSD based systems, but for 2025 GhostBSDCon will be a MVP (minimum viable product) while the community develops. In response to limited initial engagement the GhostBSDCON Committee...

We recently ran a community survey around the use of FreeBSD on desktops and laptops. To all of you, who participated: a big thank you for taking the time and sharing your thoughts and insights! We now summarized the survey results in an 8 page report, with some charts and a lot of details...

This is a guide about installing LXQT with X11 on FreeBSD and turning it in to a fully featured desktop OS. The intended audience for this guide are people with little experience with FreeBSD and people with old hardware. Assumptions: 1. FreeBSD is already installed on your system. 2. Your user...

Dear community, This is a friendly reminder about our upcoming Laptop and Desktop Workgroup (LDWG) call is scheduled for Monday, January 20, 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UTC. Whether you participated in our first meeting or are joining us for the first time, we warmly welcome your presence and...

quick reminder for those interested in joining: the first Laptop and Desktop Workgroup Call starts tomorrow at December 16, 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UTC The call can be joined via browser at...

We - a group of people involved with the FreeBSD community - would like to propose the formation of a new working group dedicated to improving the functionality and usage of FreeBSD on desktop and laptop environments. Objective The primary goal of this working group is to enhance the user...

Hi there, I have set up a FreeBSD desktop (14.1) on fairly old hardware (AMD FX-8370, GeForce GTX960). Everything works alright, except one thing: I'm experiencing sporadic freezes. These freezes are permanent. Input does not work, images are still. Only hard reset helps. This happens when I...

How to install kvantum manager ? How to install kde 6?

https://tradeyourpi.com/product/nipogi-mini-pc-am02-amd-ryzen-7-3750h-16gb-ddr4-512gb-ssd/ The specs are not very clear. I don't care about bluetooh nor wifi: Brand ‎NiPoGi Manufacturer ‎NiPoGi Series ‎AM02 3750H Product Dimensions ‎12 x 12 x 4 cm; 1.22 Kilograms Item model number...

TL:dR; After upgrading to 13.2 STABLE from 12.4, everything was fine for a day. But now I have lost the GUI (was XFCE4) and cannot SSH in. Where would you start troubleshooting this? I would be truly grateful for any advice you may have. For example, try and get SSH working, the desktop...

Going to try to start a trend here but for hardware.... I've been building hardware since I was very young and some in welcome page show some old hardware (always cool to see).... I got new stuff that I MOD or Build with my own 2 hands. I've water cool every computer I owned (here are some...

I inherited a PC tower that was already built with a single HDD installed running Windows 10 with permission to essentially do whatever I could with it as long as I do not delete the Windows 10 or any of the user content on there. This person also had all sorts of drives, cables, etc (everything...

Hello everyone, I've recently attempted to get FreeBSD working as my desktop OS, with moderate results (working, but not working great). Most of the problems I faced were related to hardware incompatibilities because I was using hardware that was too new / unsupported. Since I don't want to...

Trinity, also known as TDE, is a desktop environment for Unix-derived and Unix-like operating systems. It is a continuation of KDE 3.5 much like MATE is to GNOME 2. TDE contains a substantial amount of KDE applications that lost features or were cut entirely in the Plasma era, such as aRts...